See also Graphical User Interfaces including window managers, screen savers, et al.

See also Terminal I/O - TTY (character based display and keyboard) and related routines.

See also Text Strings - Gateway topic to character and string processing routines. NUL Terminated String processing String conversions,et al. ascii to long, long to

Up to User Interface - Gateway topic to presentation (like printing and graphics) and user interface routines. Textual User Interfaces Curses et al.

How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?

How do I validate input?

How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?

How do I ask the user for a password?

See Also

Perl 5 module that allows Term::ReadLine to use GNU readline. p5-ReadLine-Gnu-1.09 Perl 5 module that allows Term::ReadLine to use GNU readline

Perl 5 module for Term::ReadLine editing without GNU readline. p5-ReadLine-Perl-0.9908 Perl 5 module for Term::ReadLine editing without GNU readline

p5-Term-Query-2.0 An interactive question-response user interface module

perl5 module to print arrays of elements in sorted columns. p5-Array-PrintCols-2.1 Perl5 module to print arrays of elements in sorted columns

The Text-Tabs+Wrap Bundle contains Text::Tabs and Text::Wrap, both described below. [Perl] {oss}

Text::Refer - Reads, parses, and writes bibliographic entries in the refer format. [Perl] {oss}

Sys::OutPut - Defines subroutines "out", "put", "err", "talk", and "debug", all of which behave like printf but keep you from having to type that horrible filehandle (STDOUT or STDERR). [Perl] {oss}

Term::ReadLine - A Perl interface to various "readline" packages, which make command-line editing possible (e.g. Ctrl-A to go to the start of the line, Esc-F to go forward a word). Requires Term::ReadKey. [Perl] {oss}

Term::ReadLine::Gnu - A Perl interface to the GNU readline library, which supports line editing, history management, and word completion. [Perl] {oss}

Term::AnsiColor - Provides the escape codes for ANSI text attributes. [Perl] {oss}

Term::ReadKey - A Perl module for simple terminal control. Non-blocking reads, echo toggling, determining the terminal size, and so on. This module is bundled with some versions of Perl, but not all. [Perl] {oss}

Term::Info - A simple interface to your system's "tput" utility. If you don't have tput, don't bother with this. If you do, it's an easy way to make your Perl programs print in bold, or in reverse video, or highlighted. [Perl] {oss}

Term::Screen - A Term::Cap based screen positioning module. Like Curses, but much simpler and less featureful. [Perl] {oss}

Term::Size - Determines the size of the window in which your Perl script is running. [Perl] {oss}

Other Libraries, Functions, and Components